ÖBB drops out of Russian gauge project Vienna-Slovakia

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Austrian railway company ÖBB has officially withdrawn from the joint venture responsible for the broad gauge extension from Kosice in Slovakia to Austrian capital Vienna. It has offered its shares for sale to its Russian, Ukrainian and Slovakian counterparts, citing the Russia-Ukraine war as the reason for the change of course.

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John rdam|02.08.22|22:59

‘Currently it reaches its most-westward point in the Slovakian hub of Kosice’. That is not true.
The most westward-point of the 1524mm gauge is in Sławków in Dąbrowski Basin (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie), 25 km from Katowice in Poland. It is the end of the 400km long PKP-LHS- freight only line from the Polish-Ukrainian railway border crossing Hrubieszów / Izow.
PKP – LHS = Broad Gauge Metallurgical Railway Line Ltd

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ÖBB drops out of Russian gauge project Vienna-Slovakia

Photo: David Payr

Austrian railway company ÖBB has officially withdrawn from the joint venture responsible for the broad gauge extension from Kosice in Slovakia to Austrian capital Vienna. It has offered its shares for sale to its Russian, Ukrainian and Slovakian counterparts, citing the Russia-Ukraine war as the reason for the change of course.

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1 comment op “ÖBB drops out of Russian gauge project Vienna-Slovakia”

John rdam|02.08.22|22:59

‘Currently it reaches its most-westward point in the Slovakian hub of Kosice’. That is not true.
The most westward-point of the 1524mm gauge is in Sławków in Dąbrowski Basin (Zagłębie Dąbrowskie), 25 km from Katowice in Poland. It is the end of the 400km long PKP-LHS- freight only line from the Polish-Ukrainian railway border crossing Hrubieszów / Izow.
PKP – LHS = Broad Gauge Metallurgical Railway Line Ltd

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